KEY POINTS
- 400 people have become interpreters in over 50 languages
- Dari, Somali and Ukrainian among the emerging languages
- Language is not the only barrier for migrants
A government funded program in New South Wales has allowed more than 400 people speaking over 50 different languages, to become certified interpreters but advocates say more needs to be done to improve settlement in Australia.
The desire to contribute to his new country is a motivating force for Afghan refugee Rahman Ali Jawed.
He says his work as a university lecturer and an official with Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission - as well as his minority status as an ethnic Hazara - made it impossible for him to stay after the Taliban takeover.
